Sunday, 10 October 2010

Referencing Systems in Academic Writing

You can go to Mriga Online Academic Support website to get practical feedback to help you develop your assignment.

 One of the ways of ensuring that you avoid plagiarism in your assignment is  to correctly reference all your writing. There are some specific elements that should be referenced within your assignment.
There is an online guide to referencing academic work; another site for Guide to referencing (various)


The different referencing systems used by various subjects, academic institutions, journals -
Harvard Referencing System (is the most commonly used system)
OSCOLA: The Oxford Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities
APA: American Psychological Association
MLA: Modern Languages Association
Turabian – this site gives information about the 2 forms of turabian style of referencing.
Chicago
Open University (Harvard, but might vary in different faculties the open university version can be found as a handout which you can download)
BMJ referencing styles are identified on this site.

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